running. republicans refuse to be drawn into this. it could give shock waves to the entire global system. we cannot go on scaring the american people. we need to be truthful. next, two men who have a lot to say about government, taxes and you. money expert dave ramsey and cory booker. america in the balance. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. if someone doesn t do something in 19 days and three hours, this country will technically run out of money simply put, the government won t be able to borrow any more cash if congress and the white house can t figure out a way to raise the debt ceiling currently stands a mouth watering 14$14.3 trillion. the situation is so dire, moody s, the bond rating service says it s putting america s gold rated aaa status under ve view and could be headed for an unprecedented default. massachusetts governor says it s the republicans to blame. why do you say that? you guys are in the white house, aren t you? thank you for having
that s not enough to keep the government running. what this argument could cost you. we must lift the debt ceiling. republicans refuse to be drawn into this legislative trap. it s a notion it would become suddenly unreliable to throw shock waves through the entire financial system. we cannot go on scaring the american people. we need to be truthful. tonight, what will happen next. i ll ask two men who have a lot to say about government, taxes and you. money expert dave ramsey and cory booker. america in the balance. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. if someone doesn t do something in 19 days and three hours, this country will technically run out of money. simply put, the government won t be able to borrow any more cash if congress and the white house can t figure out a way to raise the debt ceiling, which currently stands at a mouth-watering $14.3 trillion. the situation is so dire, moody s, the bond rating service says it s putting america s gold rated aa
money expert dave ramsey and cory booker. america in the balance. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. if someone doesn t do something in 19 days and three hours, this country will technically run out of money simply put, the government won t be able to borrow any more cash if congress and the white house can t figure out a way to raise the debt ceiling currently stands a mouth watering 14.3 $14.3 trillion. the situation is so dire, moody s, the bond rating service says it s putting america s gold rated aaa status under ve view and could be headed for an unprecedented default. massachusetts governor says it s the republicans to blame. why do you say that? you guys are in the white house, aren t you? thank you for having me. this is a time we need a lot less politics and a lot more patriotism. what the president has done is put on the table a very balanced approach. it favors and is overwhelmingly weighted in favor of cuts, some to programs that democrats have champ
republicans. it s small enough that i think it looks like a reasonable offer and they do one other very shrewd thing they take some of president obama s own proposed budget cuts and put it into the 4 billion. it will be hard for democrats to say no, we won t even take the president s spending cuts. gregg: a government shut down is a phrase that sort of sends chills up people s spines. in fact it was very common, jimmy carter every year of his presidency an average of 11 day shut downs. it doesn t mean everything shuts down. reporter: it doesn t mean necessarily that you don t get social security checks. it doesn t mean that the troops in afghanistan and iraq don t get paid or their ammunition financed. you can structure it in a way that those essential tasks still get done. gregg: a couple of days chuck schumer, senator, democrat took a swipe at the new freshman republicans, what are there 87 of them. reporter: that s right. gregg: they say these guys are
afghanistan or iraq don t necessarily want me out in the middle of the fight, and i can understand that. but when i visit, i try to get as far into that as i can, because one of the things that s been a leadership principle for me forever is i don t want i want to understand as much as i can about what i m asking a young man or a young woman to do, including to die for our country. that s just in my soul i need to do that so, i push the envelope envelope pretty hard with respect to that, because i feel responsible for that. i feel accountable for their lives. and that goes back to accountability that i learned very young as a naval officer. you have another part of leadership which is horizontal. you ve got a whole bunch of people at the joint chiefs of staff, the head of the army, the head of the navy, senior generals and admirals, and these are people, i m assuming, you don t just bark orders to. these are people you have to persuade. i m guessing that that relationship is a more